World-News

Las Vegas Review Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
05/15/11

Why are there so many executive and judiciary branch government employees serving in the Legislature?

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/power-play-state-s-separation-of-powers-doctrine-effectively-ignored-121851449.html



About those oil company tax breaks

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

05/13/11

Whether or not one has a warm cozy feeling about big oil companies, one should be troubled by the government s power to issue selective 'tax breaks' and to rescind them whenever politicians need the money. You won t catch me saying anything nice about any tax, but I reserve a special animus for any system that gives politicians the power to treat different productive activities differently. Let s take equality before the law seriously...

http://tinyurl.com/3uymyhs



Who will restore reality to politics?

Orange County Register
by Mark Steyn

05/14/11

In the real world, debt ceilings are determined by the lenders, not the borrowers. In March, Pimco (which manages the world s largest mutual fund) calculated that 70 percent of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve. So under the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the United States government spends $188 million it doesn t have, $130 million of which is 'borrowed' from itself. There s nobody else out there...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-300417--.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=separation+of+powers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Treasury
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=tax+break
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=separation+of+power
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vin+Suprynowicz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Steyn
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